The Virginia Tech Massacre: Strategies and Challenges for Improving Mental Health Policy on Campus and Beyond (repost)

The Virginia Tech Massacre: Strategies and Challenges for Improving Mental Health Policy on Campus and Beyond by Aradhana Bela Sood, Robert Cohen
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0195392493 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

In the wake of the April 2006 Virginia Tech shootings, governor Timothy Kaine appointed an independent panel to investigate the incident and to recommend potential policy changes that might prevent such a tragedy from occurring again. The incident itself and the work of the panel mobilized the entire nation to examine many aspects of the tragedy, most centrally university mental health systems. Certain aspects of the case raised issues that were not addressed by the resulting report, such as the role of the college mental health system in the lives of young adults, the complexity of identifying the mental health needs of students, and the shortcomings of mental health delivery systems within colleges as well the larger community.

The Virginia Tech Massacre is based on the experience and unique perspective of Dr. Aradhana Bela Sood, a panel member appointed to the special independent review committee which was asked to consult specifically on the mental health system implications of the VA Tech shooting. This book discloses Sood’s personal experience as a child psychiatrist and panel member, and her role in shaping the final report. Sood, along with co-editor Dr. Robert Cohen, who has been involved in studying and reforming mental health policy for more than 40 years, and carefully selected expert contributors take readers on a journey examining the mental health vulnerabilities of youth transitioning to adulthood, the limitations of existing warning tools for violence, and local, regional, and national gaps in mental health service delivery across the United States. This book offers examples of effective mental health services, policies, and strategies, and it provides concrete and pragmatic recommendations for how to begin overhauling the delivery of mental health services. The Virginia Tech Massacre is topical and timely, given the widespread interface between violence in the public arena and mental health issues. It will be a critical resource to mental health professionals, policymakers and legislators, state and local government officials, higher education personnel, and social workers and others in the human service fields. It will also be of interest to those concerned about gun violence and mental health and students in psychiatry, psychology, social work, and public health.

The Challenges of Contemporaneity

The Challenges of Contemporaneity: Postmodernity and Multiculturalism
Springer | Philosophical Traditions | July 9, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319338846 | 99 pages | pdf | 1.52 mb

Authors: Rzayeva Oktay, Roida

Contributes to the debate on the presence of a postmodernist paradigm in non-Western societies
Deepens readers’ understanding of concepts of public consciousness that spark social transformations
Meets the need for a new narrative and paradigm reflecting a different world view

This book presents an overview of postmodernism and its social indicators, and of the postmodern condition in consciousness as an indicator of its modification and development. The book brings together philosophical, sociological and cultural approaches towards contemporary societal issues, such as multiculturalism, culture of dialogue, philosophy of dialogue, tolerance, and gender. In doing so, it suggests a framing approach to cross-disciplinary research. The book also discusses various forms of multiculturalism, including multiculturalism as multiple modernities and plural modernities, and non-Western contemporaneity. It explores the background of the dynamics of the development of public consciousness, in particular from the modern to postmodern, and subsequently examines the West/non-West dichotomy and how that dichotomy is currently being reconsidered in response to the intellectual-spiritual realities of modern life.

Topics

Modern Philosophy

Click Here to Buy the Hardcover from SpringerPurchase a Premium account from Download Link for Multiple/High Speed And Support Click Here for More books

Implosion: Can America Recover from Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges in Time?

Implosion: Can America Recover from Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges in Time?
Language: English | EPUB | ISBN-10: 1414319673 | 2012 | 400 pages | 1 MB

Bestselling author and international political expert Joel C. Rosenberg tackles the question: Is America an empire in decline or a nation poised for a historic Renaissance?

America teeters on a precipice. In the midst of financial turmoil, political uncertainty, declining morality, the constant threat of natural disasters, and myriad other daunting challenges, many wonder what the future holds for this once-great nation. Will history’s greatest democracy stage a miraculous comeback, returning to the forefront of the world’s economic and spiritual stage? Can America’s religious past be repeated today with a third Great Awakening? Or will the rise of China, Russia, and other nations, coupled with the US’s internal struggles, send her into a decline from which there can be no return?

Implosion helps readers understand the economic, social, and spiritual challenges facing the United States in the 21st century, through the lens of biblical prophecy.

Download free fresh books every day!PDF

– for your PC!

EPUB

– for your SonyReader, IPHONE, IPAD (also you can download ReaderLibrary and read on your PC:

Download

)!

MOBI

– for your Kindle (also you can download mobireader and read on your PC:

Download

)!

Ted Fishman - China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World [Repost]

Ted Fishman – China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
2006 | ISBN: 0743257359 | English | 368 pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB

The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman’s bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.

China today is visible everywhere – in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential – and updated with new statistics and information – this dramatic account of China’s growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred – and why it already affects us all.

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world’s biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China’s emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything – computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals – that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?

Challenges - 12 au 18 Mai 2016

Challenges – 12 au 18 Mai 2016
French | 100 pages | True PDF | 19.49 MB

Game-Based Marketing: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges, and Contests (Repost)

Game-Based Marketing: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges, and Contests By Gabe Zichermann, Joselin Linder
2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0470562234 | PDF | 1 MB

Harness the power of games to create extraordinary customer engagement with Game–Based Marketing.
Gamification is revolutionizing the web and mobile apps.
Innovative startups like Foursquare and Swoopo, growth companies like Gilt and Groupon and established brands like United Airlines and Nike all agree: the most powerful way to create and engage a vibrant community is with game mechanics. By leveraging points, levels, badges, challenges, rewards and leaderboards these innovators are dramatically lowering their customer acquisition costs, increasing engagement and building sustainable, viral communities.
Game–Based Marketing unlocks the design secrets of mega–successful games like Zynga s Farmville, World of Warcraft, Bejeweled and Project Runway to give you the power to create winning game–like experiences on your site/apps.

Based on the groundbreaking work of game expert and successful entrepreneur Gabe Zichermann, Game–Based Marketing brings together the game mechanics expertise of a decade s worth of research. Driven equally by big companies, startups, 40–year–old men and tween girls, the world is becoming increasingly more fun.

Challenges - 28 Avril au 4 Mai 2016

Challenges – 28 Avril au 4 Mai 2016
French | True PDF | 100 Pages | 12.24 Mb